Pueches miles



P. MILES.

(No Model.)

WIRE HOOK'.

No. 392,624. Patented Nov. 13, 18818.

u a screw-threaded shank.

PURCHES MILES, OF BROOKLYN, NEWT YORK.

WIRE HOOK..

PCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,624, dated November 13, 1888.

Application ilcd April 3, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Punonns Minus, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Hooks for Coats, Hats, dto.; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings furnished and forming a part of the same, is a clear, true, and complete description of my invention.

My said improvements relate to what may be termed double hooks,77 composed of a singlelength of wire so bent as to afford a main hook and another underlying hook, and have Hooks have heretofore been so constructed that each of said separate hooks is composed of two portions of the wire, and one terminal of the wire extends from said lower hook upward to and around the shank of the upper hook, and that portion of the wire extending from the front of the upper hook downward and rearward to the lower hook serves as a brace for said upper or main hook, because the rear of the lower hook when in service abuts against the surface on which the hook is mounted, all as disclosed in my Letters Patent No. 280,062, dated J une 26, 1883. In mounting these prior double hooks there is a liability of a defacing contact of the rear of the lower hook with the surface ou which it is to be mounted 'during the final rotative movements of the hook while driving the screw-shank into wood far enough to provide for a firm abutting contact of said lower hook with the surface of the wood, thus involving a liability of objectionable abrasion of said surface in circular or semicircular lines.

The objects of my present improvements are to not only obviate this liability of defacement, but to also provide, in a cheap grade of goods, a strong reliable lower hook with a minimum of wire and without the aid of such complex mechanism as is necessary for forming double hooks which Vhave a lower hookshank suspended by means of an eye thereon from the screw-threaded shank. All of said ends are attained by me, because my novel hook is composed of a single length of wire, has a straight shank which .is screw-threaded at its tip, is bent to form a hook at the outer end of the shank, is extended downward and Serial No. 269,461. (Nomodcl.)

rearward therefrom, and developed into an underlying hook composed of a single line of wire, and with this I combine al strap or loop which couples the straight shank with the lower hook, and is adjustable longitudinally on said shank. In mounting a hook thus coustructed, the screw-shank is turned into the wood nearly to the extent desired, and then, the link having been rst moved forward out of its normal position, the lower hook is or can be sprung out of its normal position, so that the final turning of the shank can be effected without contact of the hook with the surface of the wood, and then the lower hook is pressed into close contact with said surface and the link moved into its proper position, thus providing for the proper bracing effect between the back of the lower hook and the upper hook. lf, however, my novel hooks are desired without reference to said nonabrasive capacity, said links may be permanently fixed in position, such a hook being simpler, lighter, and less expensive than my prior double hooks.

To more particularly describe myiuveution, I will refer to the drawings, in which- Figure l illustrates in side view one of my hooks as when applied for service. Fig. 2 illustrates the same as when in position just prior to the final turning of the screw-shank. Fig. 3 in side view illustrates a detached coupling-link iu a desirable form composed of wire. Fig. 4 in several views illustrates a detached sheet-metal link, and also the same as when crimped into form when in its proper and effective place on the hook.

The hook is composed of a length of wire, l

and it has the straight shank a, having a screwthreaded tip, and at its opposite end the main hook bis formed by bending the wire upward, forward, and downward, thence rearward under the shauk,where the other terminal of the wire is developed into a second or lower hook, c, underlying said shank, and having a surface, c', at its rear for abutting against the surface on which the hook may be mounted, and affording a bracing effect for the upper hook. The coupling -link d, in a desirable form, is composed of wire and is S-shaped, so as to embrace the wire of the shank and the underlying brace portion, and to confine them ICO in iixed positions with reference to cach other. In its best arrangement said link can bemoved longitudinally on the hook, so that when moved toward the hook b, as indicated in Fig. 2, the hook c can be readily deflected and enable its abutting surface at c to be kept from contact with the surface on which it is to bc mounted during the final turning of the screwshank into proper position, and then the hook c, on being forced into place, is iirmly coniined therein byv moving the link into its normal position, as shown in Fig. l. In some cases I provide notches or depressions in the top surface of the shank and in the underside of the brace portion above the hook c, for occupation by the link, and firmly securing it in its normal position.

Instead of a link composed of wire, I sometimes use a seamless sheet-metal link, d', Fi g. 4, this being a short length of a thin'drawu metal tube, iiattened, passed over the hook b, and then crimped, as shown, into close contact with the two portions of the wire.

While it will be necessary, for the purpose of avoiding the liability of defaeing a surface on which the hook is to be mounted, to have the link movable, as described, it is to be un- `dei-stood that said link may be permanently length of wire and having a screw-threaded shank, an upper hook, an underlying hook composed of one terminal of the wire, and a coupling-link which is applied to and embraces a part of the wire in the shank, and also the underlying portion of the Wire above the lower hook, substantially as described.

2. A hat or coat hook composed of a single length oi" wire having a screw-threaded shank, an upper hook, an underlying hook composed of one terminal of the wire, and a couplinglink which is applied to and embraces a part of the wire in the shank, and also the underlying portion ofthe wire above the lower hook, and is movable to and fro on the shank, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

PURGHES MILES.

Witnessesz C. T. Srouir, A. A. FoNDii. 

